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Right now, changing accounts is implemented by the old server sending a Move activity which tells all your followers where your new account is. This doesn't han
by shadowfacts 3y ago
Right now, changing accounts is implemented by the old server sending a Move activity which tells all your followers where your new account is. This doesn't handle moving any content.
But, there's nothing fundamental about ActivityPub that prevents this: https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/ https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/. You can absolutely have posts identified by your identity (read: domain) rather than where they're hosted. Complete and seamless moves are possible, Mastodon just doesn't implement them.
- capableweb 3y agoInteresting. So ActivityPub could support that use case, but currently doesn't. Combined with the fact that getting changes through to the specification itself (maintained by W3C), I could understand not wanting to spend the energy and effort on trying to go that route, and instead come up with something different. Thanks for sharing your article, lots of good points in there.
- sbarre 3y agoInteresting, thanks for sharing that. This has been one of the things I felt that ATP got "right", so neat to see that ActivityPub can do it, even if Mastodon doesn't.